Travel Alert Status
Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions
Time Difference
UTC+8 (13 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
time zone note: Mongolia has two time zones - Ulaanbaatar Time (8 hours in advance of UTC) and Hovd Time (7 hours in advance of UTC)
Travel Climate
Because of the elevation and distance from any ocean or sea, Mongolia has a harsh continental climate. Marked seasonal, even daily, changes in temperature, numerous high-pressure systems, and severe cold occur most of the year. A remarkably sunny country, Mongolia enjoys 250 sunny days a year, often with clear cloudless skies, making even the coldest temperatures more tolerable.
Travel Currency
togrog/tugrik (MNT)
Languages
Khalkha Mongol 90%, Turkic, Russian
Ethnic Groups
Mongol (predominantly Khalkha) 85%, Turkic (of which Kazakh is the largest group) 7%, Tungusic 4.6%, other (including Chinese and Russian) 3.4%
National Holiday
Naadam (games) holiday (commemorates independence from China in the 1921 Revolution), 11-15 July; Constitution Day (marks the date that the Mongolian People's Republic was created under a new constitution), 26 November (1924)
Geographic Coordinates
46 00 N, 105 00 E
Location
Northern Asia, between China and Russia
Airports
15